Adult females lay one large batch of eggs, often containing as many as 10,000 or more eggs! Ticks must climb onto objects like grass, weeds or branches to wait for a suitable host to pass by. They do this because they don’t move quickly and can’t jump or fly. When ticks sense vibrations or exhaled carbon dioxide and other chemical cues, they extend their forelegs in preparation for attaching to the passing host.
Here’s a nasty thought: ticks feed exclusively on blood. Maybe yours. Tick-borne diseases include Lyme disease, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, babesiosis, ehrlichiosis, anaplasmosis, typhus, rickettsialpox, relapsing fever, tularemia, Colorado tick fever and Texas cattle fever. Remove a tick from your skin as soon as you notice it, using a fine-tipped tweezer to grasp the tick close to the skin and steadily remove it from your skin.
Abra Kadabra technicians can help control tick infiltration and will give you tips on reducing the tick population by changing some of the outdoor attractions for mice and deer which carry ticks into your otherwise inviting outdoor space.
